M&A Communications: Start Planning Early
These seven steps at the start of an M&A process will go a long way toward creating the best customer experience and optimizing the deal.
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Podcast: Growing a Bank Amid the Ups and Downs of Oil
“If you’re in Midland, Texas, you’re in the oil business,” says Jay Isaacs. “It doesn’t matter if you have a doughnut shop or a dry cleaners.”
Podcast: M&A Tips from a Fast-Growing Bank
On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, United Bankshares President Rick Adams talks about United Bank’s experience with M&A and offers tips on providing quick and candid communication in the merger process.
Podcast: A Small-Town Bank That Serves Small-Town Banks
Kristie Holoch’s bank is not just in the business of serving farmers, families and small businesses in the 33 Nebraska towns where it has branches — it also serves its fellow Nebraska community banks.
IRS Issues Proposed Regulations on BOLI Transfers
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department has issued proposed regulations related to new reporting rules for certain transfers of life insurance policies that were included in the 2017 tax reform law.
M&A News: Florida Bank Is Third to Be Bought by Credit Union in 2019
Weekly M&A roundup from Arkansas, Florida, Illinois and Kentucky.
BB&T, SunTrust Announce $66B Merger Deal
BB&T Corporation and SunTrust Banks today announced that they will combine in a merger of equals that would make the resulting company one of the nation’s largest financial institutions and mark the biggest bank merger since the financial crisis.
Podcast: The Bank M&A Outlook for 2019
Key regulatory changes and business trends will drive bank mergers and acquisitions in 2019, two top bank deal lawyers say on the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast.
A Wind in the Sales? 2019 M&A Outlook
Look for 2019 bank mergers to be driven by large deals in metro markets, smaller banks on the buy side and de novo groups acquiring rural banks.
Fed’s Quarles: Rural Markets Retain Community Bank Presence, but Not HQs
Community bank locations have remained present in rural markets at roughly the same rate over the past two decades, even as consolidation means that bank headquarters have closed in many of these markets, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said today at an industry event in St. Louis.